Though somewhat dark and dramatic in character A Million Suns at Midnight is ultimately a hopeful optimistic work evoking the struggles of humanity to grow achieve and evolve finally overcoming our fear (and its mostcommon manifestation: violence) to transcend our physical and mental boundaries. Individuals now possess an unprecedented technological capability for both creation and destructi…

Featuring over 1 000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts Mark Kailana Nelson's Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele is one of the most comprehensive and useful Ukulele chord booksever published. This book includes all the chords you will need for fingerstyle and chord melody arrangements complex styles like jazz and bossa nova or simply for tickling your fingers and exercising…

While many books chronicle the history of jazz few are both designed for classroom use and follow jazz's evolution to the modern day. But by speaking to the student musician veteran performer and educator David Lee Fish has created uncommon opportunities for general music teachers to relate the work of the jazz masters their instruments and their musical achievements to popular music and today…

Learn to play rhythm and lead guitar in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan Johnny Winter and Albert Collins with this excellent Book and CD Pack. The book covers a variety of different styles and techniques including 24 commonblues licks blues box positions shuffle blues slow blues Latin blues and straight blues. All lessons in standard notation and TAB. The CD contains 34 full-band tracks for…

part II of the cycle Profiles of Light. Par PINTSCHER MATTHIAS. 'Now II” is the second part of a triptych of chamber pieces entitled 'Profiles of Light”. The first part is written for solo piano (Now I, BA 11073), the second for unaccompanied cello. The two instruments are then combined in the concluding third part, Uriel (BA 11013). All three pieces were inspired by the Abstract Expressionist pai…

The secondo provides a gentle accompaniment to a gorgeous melody found in the primo played both as a single line and later doubled at the octave. Pedaling is notated for either performer although the highly regarded arrangerscommonly advocate for pedaling executed by the primo performer.With careful attention to melodic shaping this duet would be a lovely addition to any program especially o…

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new iss…

Preview Pak (Book/CD)-Celebrate our legacy of liberty and the foundations of our faith with this thoughtful new choral collection from the pen of Joseph Martin. Newly composed chorals and arrangements mingle with bestsellers to create a work ofuncommon power and emotion. Included in this inspiring compilation are optional religious and civil service suggestions to make your presentation a meaningf…

In the pursuit of improvisation (jazz or other styles) scales are the ?palettes? utilized for creating melodies. Often scales are only practiced ascending or descending step-wise. ?Jazz Scale Workout? by Ken Karsh contains eightmeasure through-composed continuous eighth note exercises (or ?workouts?) utilizing ?jazz style? melodies based around the Major Dorian (minor seventh) Mixolydian (Domi…

Score and Parts for Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Sequences. Written for bass flute bass clarinet baritone saxophone and contrabassoon. Composed for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) for theICEcommons Project and the New York Public Library. The first performance was given on 2 February 2013 at Kaldalón Hall Harpa Centre Reykjavik Iceland. Duration: c. 8 minutes